Innoxious

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having no harmful effect; harmless, innocuous. archaic

    "But of all wayes of hastening the Clarification and Ripening of new Wine, none seems to me to be either more easie, or more innoxious, than that borrowed from one of the Ancients by the Lord Chancellor Bacon, […] which is by putting the wine into vessels well stopped, and letting it down into the Sea."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having no adverse effect wordnet

Synonyms

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innocuousharmlessharmlessinnocuousinoffensiveinoffensive

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"But of all wayes of hastening the Clarification and Ripening of new Wine, none seems to me to be either more easie, or more innoxious, than that borrowed from one of the Ancients by the Lord Chancellor Bacon, […] which is by putting the wine into vessels well stopped, and letting it down into the Sea."

Etymology

From Latin innoxius.

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